On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:27 +0000, Lyle wrote:
> Nigel Hamilton wrote:
> > Just a quick aside - I can't believe it has taken me this long to find: 
> >
> >       cpanp -i 'Some::Module'. 
> >
> > I almost cried with relief this morning. It automatically downloads 
> > and installs from CPAN - great for installing modules on lots of 
> > remote machines.
> >
> > Up until today I've been muddling through with old school: perl -MCPAN 
> > -e 'install ...', cpan2rpm etc.
> 
> Funnily enough I just submitted a patch to Jos Boumans the maintainer 
> (although not a patch for CPANPLUS, one for Config::Auto).
> 
> Looking at the latest dev version of CPANPLUS seems there are some build 
> errors on some systems. I was tempted to make this the next code contest...

Would it be so wrong to wedge cpan into the module loader so that if you
use Some::Module and it doesn't exist perl can download and install
to /tmp the missing modules . Obviously this isn't going to be good for
production but it could be enabled by a pragma i.e use clusterfuck

Toodle-pip
Amias 

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